Old and New Masters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old and New Masters, credited to Robert Lynd, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of OLd and New Masters by Robert Lynd. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today. Robert Lynd (1879 – 1949) is best known as a literary essayist and Irish nationalist. He published many essays, all written in an easy, conversational style. Lynd was an essayist after the manner of Charles Lamb, and deserves to be better known. A complete list of his works is available at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Wilson\_Lynd (summary by chocmuse)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old and New Masters
• Author credits: Robert Lynd
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 8:31:31

Catalogue topics

• essays
• writers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist — 15:25
2. 02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian — 15:09
3. 03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins — 15:25
4. 04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc — 8:24
5. 05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons — 14:08
6. 06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius — 19:42
7. 07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics — 16:13
8. 08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography — 15:36
9. 09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View — 10:21
10. 10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples — 8:00
11. 11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work — 17:21
12. 12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again — 17:45
13. 13 - Browning, the Poet of Love — 15:44
14. 14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge — 8:29
15. 15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern — 14:42
16. 16 - Pope — 12:58
17. 17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker — 9:07
18. 18 - Turgenev — 12:16
19. 19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg — 17:23
20. 20 - The Prince of French Poets — 16:04
21. 21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual — 10:03
22. 22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw — 16:45
23. 23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret — 19:13
24. 24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself — 16:51

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